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The Daily Herald
SUNDAY. JUNE 22, 1873.
THK HERALD PtBLISIlI.N'U COMPANY,
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TO ADVERTISERS.
Tile bona ride circulation of tlie Daily-
Herald is larger than that of the Consti
tution.
The bona fide eirrulalien of the Dally
Herald Is mote tnan donbte that of the
Sen.
We are pr pared to verify this claim
from onr books.
“Law Abidek,” in whoso short squibs there
is a great deal of rough common sense,
comes at us again this morning on capital
punishment.
TO ADVERTISERS.
As an indication of the rapid manner in
which the circulation of the Herald in
creases, we append a table of the number of
quires printed each week for eight weeks
past. We give the weekly total, because we
do not keep any daily average, the Foreman
of pva press room making his returns every
Saturday, the correctness of which is ascer
tained by comparisons with the returns of the
Mail Clerk and Book-keeper:
Quires.
For the week ending May 3 649
•• •• '• " " 10 661
«« “ * 17 673
“ 24 698
“ •• “ “ “ 31 727
“ “ " ** Jane 7 744
“ •• « •• •• 14 779
“ •• •« “ " 21 810
It will be seen from the foregoing figures
that the daily average on May 3d was 2,506,
while the daily average for the past week was
3,240, being an increase in eight weeks of
nearly seven hundred subscribers.
It is proper to state that in this increase we
have not included the numerous large orders
we have received from time to time, but have
confined ourselves strictly to the actual, legit
imate circulation of the Herald.
We feel authorized in claiming that the
Herald has very nearly as large a circulation
(if not as large) as both the other city papers
put together; and it will be observed that
the increase continues steadily and without
pause.
Wanted—A few fonts of italics. Must be
common material, specially adapted to the
use of adjectives. Apply at Opelika, Ala
bama.
THK OPELIKA TRAGEDY AGAIN.
AN ATLANTA FIRE INSURANCE COM
PANY NEEDED.
The serious statements concerning the
North Missouri Fire Insurance Company and
the grave probability of its fail ure has awaken
ed to a proper realization of their danger many
of the property owners of th is city. Not far
from two hundred thousand dollars are yearly
paid to Fire Insurance Agents here lor pre
miums, and the greater part of the money
leaves Atlanta never again to return. While
this large expenditure is annually incurred,
the insured possess no better security that
their risks will be paid should their property
be destroyed, than is afforded by popular
faith in the solvency of the companies.
Not a single “foreign” insurance company in
Georgia deposits money with the State
Treasurer as an earnest of good faith with its
policy holders, or invests its funds in Geor
gia. As a consequence, the insured are
completely at their mercy. If a company
fails, there is nothing left those who have
paid money on policies than to submit to the
loss and insure in some other company,
perhaps to find it as frail in performances as
it is fair in promise.
But why should this annual depiction of
our capital continue ? Why do not our cap
italists organize a strong Mutual Fire Insur
ance Company, and thus retain in Atlanta
the large sums of money yearly paid to Com
panies of other States ? If such men ns Gen.
Austell, John A. Jones, A. C. and B. F.
Wyly, A. Leyden, R. F. Maddox, John
Stephens, and a hundred other men we could
name, would organize such a Company, they
would give it a solidity that would insure it
two-thirds of the total number
of risks taken in outside
companies. It is a matter worthy of record
that every fire insurance company established
in Georeia has prospered. Why not in At
lanta, where the field is more inviting and
the demand more urgent ? We need a home
company here. Atlanta requires something
more tangible and solid than flaming adver
tisements showing huge assets, which dis
appear like snow in springtime before the
first serious conflagration. Such a company
would pat.au end to the gross impostures
practised upon an already too credulous peo
ple, and enable property owners to feel sure
certainly that their money, when paid for
policies, is really, to use a metaphor, bread
thrown upon the waters which will return
“after many days.”
We trust that our men of money will seri
ously consider the necessity for just such a
company as we have suggested, and will lose
no time in organizing one. We believe that
it would yield to them a larger profit than
they could obtain by lending their money at
interest, and it would unquestionably benefit
the city by keeping some two hundred thous
and dollars at home now sent out annually to
companies which have no other interest in
Atlanta than to get as much as they can out
of property owners, and to pay back as little as
possible, and that little only after many and
vexatious delays.
Out of a large batch of additional evidence
in the Hooper case at Opelika, which we re
ceived this morning, we extract the testi
mony of the ODly witnesses who touched
npon the alleged cause of the killing. All the
other evidence was confined to proving the
good character of Miss Barnett, and to show
ing that the witness Allen could or could not
have overheard the conversation he swore
took place between Hooper and the young
lady.
Dr. G. S. Cobb, whose evidence we print
elsewhere, is the only man who swears that
Mr. Phillips told him anything of the scan
dal. He, with apparent truthfulness, admits
that in The first conversation the deceased de
clined to give any names; and in the second
only confirmed what Cobb said he had heard
from other patties in relation to the names.
Even then Mr. Phillips explicitly told him
that he did not know who the lady was; that
he had been told it was Miss Barnett, but that
he could not say it was that young lady of his
own knowledge. Mr. Phillips further stated
that he “could not prove criminal inter
course” between the parties. He tried in
every way to hush up the scandal. In the
cross-examination Dr. Cobb says:
•• In the second conversation, Mr. Phillips told me
that on Monday morning, the 7th, he went to Johnnie
Hooper and told him he ought to be more particular,
and mentioned what he had seen. Johnnie asked
him what lady he alluded to. He said he did not
know Of his own knowledge who the lady was. when
Johnnie asked him this. “I told him that Miss
Dozier had told me the lady was Miss Barnett.’'
Johnnie then said: “If you insinuate that, I will
shoot your head off.” Phillips said that he told John
nie that he did not go there to make him mad, but to
warn him as a father, and that shooting was a game
that two could play at “But it you wers to kill me
perhaps you would not want to kill ,two or three wo*
men.” He said Mr. Hooper aaked him if the women
had aeen it, and Mr. Phillips replied, “Yes.” Phillips
said that Hooper then asked him not to say anything
about it.”
It will thus be seen that nowhere is it
shdwn that Mr. Phillips circulated^the scan
dal. He only admitted that he had seen
Hooper under (to him) anspicions circum
stances; but even then he declared that he
did not know who the young lady was. Not
until the question was pat to him point blank,
“Was not the young lady Miss Barnett?''
did he admit that he had been told it was; at
the same time stating that he could not
swear that It was, and could not even prove
criminal conduct.
' Sift all the evidence and but one conclu
sion can be arrived at. It is that, alluding
to the testimony thus far elicited, a most un
just and slanderous rumor affecting a young
lady’s character was circulated by somebody;
but it is clearly proven that Mr. Phillips was
not the man who circulated it. It is also
clear that Hooper killed Phillips without any
justification whatever: unless, indeed, it be
justifiable to take life because a man refuses
to make denial of a report wtic h he did not
circulate. Unquestionably, Phillips had a
story to tell, but Hooper's pistol effectually
prevented his telling it. If he was alive he
could, perhaps, show beyond denial, how un
just it was to charge him with slandering a
young girL But he is dead and cannot con
front and contradict anything that may be
said against him. He has been the victim of
a most atrocious murder; and we stroogly sus
pect that Hooper was not a voluntary agent
in the bloody deed; but that he was urged on
to its commission by a clique of unmitigated
scoundrels, who were anxious to kill some
body.
JLOl'ISlASA—A DANGEROUS COMPRO
MISE
The basis of co-operation between the
white and colored citizens of Louisiana has
been published.
General Beauregard was the chairman who
reported the resolutions, and it is with sincere
regret that we chronicle the fact. We know
that the condition of Louisiana was terrible
and we give him full credit for his patriotism
in seeking to do all that was possible to extri
cate his State from the political death which
has for some time threatened it, but we must
condemn his judgment. His plan is merely
an attempt to escape from present trouble by
adopting a compromise, which will result
in evils ten times worse. We do
not believe that any large portion
of the white people of Louisiana
will ever consent to snch complete and
thorough social equality as he has recom
mended, and thus they must become divided.
Their only safety is in complete unit}. Di
vide them aid henceforth the State must con
tinue to be a prey to misrule and oppression.
When he says, by “our people” we mean all
men, of whatever race, color, or religion, who
are citizens of Louisiana, we agree with him.
We are perfectly willing and anxious to see
the negro in the full enjoyment of his politi
cal rights. The law gives them to him, and
the sooner we accord them the sooner they
will cease to trouble us. The right to vote
carries with it the right to hold office,
and if any community prefers to
l>e ruled by negro officers, we
say let them have their choice. We also
believe that banks, insurance offices and other
public corporations should recognize and con
cede to negroes, when they are stockholders,
the] right of being represented in their direc
tion. Rut, when Gen. Beauregard recom
mends that there shall be no distinction in
public schools, or factories, or foundries, or
machine shops, and that the proprietors of
all places of public resort, and the captains of
steamboats and other public conveyances,
shall pursue this policy, we do enter our pro
test. This thing may come, bat we are not
prepared for it, or do we believe it ever can
exist without perpetual trouble.
This compromise may cause a lull in toe
present difficulties, but whenever it is at
tempted to be carried out in practice, they
will break out a fresh. As Commodore Tat-
nail remarked “blood is thicker than water,”
and all the resolutions and compromises that
the most earnest patriots and peace-makers
may pass can never extinguish the distinction
of Caste which God himself has established.
We certainly desire to live in peace with
the negro. Their numerical strength is so
great that our prosperity depends upon his
becoming a gocd and useful citizen. We
regard him as the best agricultural laborer
in the world, and we have always
done all in our power to encourage
him to buy land sad own property, and thus
become interested in good government.
Seven years ago the writer divided his land
in small farms and settled negro families,
who have planted orchards and worked their
lands successfully. They are still on the
land, and probably will remain there until
their families grow up. We, therefore, agree
with General Beauregard when he recom*
mends the large landed proprietors the
policy of adopting the small farm system.
At the same time, we feel that the
relations of the two races should now
be clearly understood and firmly
established. White men will never con
sent to social equality with negroes, and
all attempts to encourage such a delusion
must end in harm. Deal justly with the ne
gro; give him his due; protect him from vio
lence; give him a fair trial in the courts; res
pect his rights as a citizen, but at the same
time let him understand that in social life
he must continue in his own sphere, and
while we will not encroach upon what be
longs to him, be must not attempt to thrust
himself where his presence most ever produce
repulsion and bad feeling.
Viewing the question in this light, we feel
that General Beauregard and his Committee
have made a great mistake.
BIRMINGHAM COLONEL ADAIR’S
LETTER AND WATER WORKS.
We publish elsewhere a very interesting ac
count of Birmingham, written for the Her
ald, by Colonel George W. Adair, who re
cently paid a visit to that city. In the very
animated and admirable description given of
the place. Colonel Adair has not lost sight of
its sanitary arrangements. We call particular
attention to what he saj’s concerning the
water works established there. The system
on which they have been established is iden
tical with that advocated by Colonel Adair
for Atlanta, last winter, and the conviction
is again expressed by him, that with sixty
thousand dollars we could obtain an efficient
system of water works, capable of supplying
us with all the water this city would need for
years to come. Why, then, is it not tried?
Why is not Colonel Adair’s proposition ac
cepted ? He says that if the City Council will
give him sixty thousand dollars he will furnish
Atlanta with all the water she needs. Surely
this sum is not too large for our ultra-econom
ical Council to appropriate for so desirable a j
purpose. We fear, though, that a majority of i
the present Couneil are wedded to their idea;
and it will be a matter for prayerful thankful- I
ness if we escape some sucb terrible scourge !
as has visited other cities better provided |
against danger than we are.
Col. Adair’s offer is something more than '
a suggestion.
It is a plain, straightforward offer, from a i
practical business man. that if the city will
furnish him with sixty thousand dollars he j
will supply water enough for oar present i
needs. If we are too poor to build works for
a city of twenty or fifty years hence, then let
us have such as we are able to pay !
for. It would have been very foolish to post
pone the building of a street railway, because
we could not raise money to carry it through
every sheet and to grade lines that may be
built up in the next twenty years; and so it
is folly not to get a supply of water for
present needs, because we can’t take care ol
posterity. We say with Sir Boyle Roach,
posterity never did anything for us, and why
should we be so anxious to do for posterity.
Wake, up gentlemen, and let us hear from
you. Give us water. We are tired of paying
one dollar per week for a sprinkler to keep
down the dust, and carrying three times as
much insurance and paying three times as
much for it as we otherwise would if we had
water.
JOHN McK. GUNN.
Some days since we published a circular
which was sent to our office by a member of
the bar, signed John McK. Gunn, in which
he stated that he had been compelled to pay
three thousand dollars to get the decision of
“Joe Brown and Kent McKay,” on the home
stead law reversed, and he thought every
creditor who collected any money in conse
quence, ought to pay him at least half of all
they should recover. He offered to “go
halves” with any lawyer who could so work
upon the sympathies of a holder of old debts
as to indace him to contribute and to protect
the lawyer, he would send him a receipt in
full of the whole amount so collected, and
yet allow him to retain half of it.
This circular struck us as being so su
premely foolish, that wc at ones pronounced
it a forgery, as we had hitherto entertained a
better opinion of Mr. McK. Gunn’s sense.
Hearing that he was in the city, we sent a re
porter to interview him, and to our surprise
and regret Mr. G. acknowledges that he is
the author of this remarkable circular. Did
Mr. McKee Gunn suppose that any holder of
an old debt, who would enforce his claim
against a poor debtor, even if it involved the
ruin of his family, would be willing to divide
with him anything he might thus recover.
Vain hope. We advise Mr. Gunn to abandon
it at once. What has been the result of this
decision which Mr. McKee Gunn says he ob
tained at such tremendous expense and effort.
We do not believe it has benefitted anybody
except the Registers in Bankruptcy, and the
officers of the United States Courts, and the
newspapers which have published the adver
tisements. We don’t envy Mr. Gunn his re
flections when he surveys the field and sees
how many people he has contributed to make
miserable. We don’t think he will get much
satisfaction in the way of money, but we can
assure him that he has caused a vast deal of
sorrow in Georgia, more, perhaps, than any
man since Sherman left us.
We know of so many cases of hardship that
we really believe there will be an effort made
to get relief from our next Legislature. Mr.
Gunn has secured one thing. He has secured
a fame that will cause his name to be remem
bered for at least two generations. So did
the man who fired the Ephesian Dome.
WATER WORKS.
Did our City Fathers read a telegram pub
lished in the Herald of Friaaj’, from New
York, in which Mr. Howard called to the
Board of Underwriters the fact of Atlanta
being too perilous a fire risk for good com
panies to take, since the City Fathers had
declined to furnish additional water facilities?
We have no idea that our northern lriends
will retire their risks as long us we have a
penny with which to pay them, but the peo
ple are getting very anxious for something
definite on the subject of water works.
Where is the committee of investigatiou that
was appointed some weeks ago? Can’t we
hear from it ?
Father O’Keefe expects his uction against
Cardinal Cullen to be tried again, and will
occupy the meantime with suits against
Bishop Moran, Dr. McDonald, the Dublin
Evening Post and the Kilkenny Journal.
BIRMINGHAM.
It is with diffidence that we suggest to the | colonel
City Council the disbursement of any money
not absolutely necessary in the conduct of the
city government, but we feel that we will be
pardoned for saying that it would be a very
good idea, if the money can possibly be spared,
te donate a few thousands to the Fulton
county Fair Association.
As to whether the Fair will be a success or
not, we cannot presume to say, but we do say
that it will be worth five thousand dollars
to the city, to have a half fare rate
established on the several railroads leading
into the city, for one week. This will be
done if the Fair is held. If it is done, hun
dreds, aye, thousands of people living in the
towns, cities and villages near Atlanta will A . . ... ... ..
° sufficient to justify the owner in putting np the proper-
take this opportunity, and come to Atlanta i ty , tanclion . uirminghun ta certainly
to “do a little trading.” We will have dur- a remarkable place.
ing the whole week a series of excursion 18 not two years since the first survey was mad*-,
trains, packed to the utmost, arriving daily, i wlth not * building °n the .tte; now there .re four
, , , , , | thousand inhabitants of first-class people. On the
and each excursionist will leave probably an . ... ...... .. , ,,
1 J streets you will meet intelligent business men and well
average often dollars in the city. dressed ladies. They have five nice churches, with
We merely throw this hint out to be debated preachers in charge; four good hotels; a plaining mill
by the committee to which the matter has an ‘l K ri8t mill > run b y steam; over one hun-
been referred. 1 dred t*°- 8 tory brick stores, with iron
and granite fronts well finished; over
four hundred nice, tastily built cottage residences,
costing from three to six thousand dollars,—a number
of more costly residences, some bein° finished at a
cost of not less than ten thousand dollars. The city
is in a valley, on the site of an old plantation, and is
between two mountains, one of coal and the other of
iron ore. No mistake about this. Just as well say
IV—A RKMABKABLK PLA
AND APPEARANCE—ITS COAL AND IRON—AS A
RAILROAD CENTRE—WATER WORKS, ETC.
Atlanta, June 21,1873.
To the Editors of the Herald :
As I promised to give you my impressions of Bir
mingham, on my recent visit to sell lots for the “ Ely'
ton Land Company,” at auction, on the 18th inst., I
will say the auction sale was a failure.
From West Point to Birmingham I found the fields
covered with grass and water; corn and cotton may
have been planted, but they will have to be “ recon
structed ” before any yield will ever come of it. The
Alabama and Chattanooga Bailrosd waa on another
spree, and no one could reach the sale from either end
of this road.
The failure of trains and the depression of the plant’
ing interests caused a small attendance at the sale, not
Mr.. John Stephens was on the right track
decidedly, when he went before the Council,
and insisted in a forcible speech, that the
regular merchants of the city should be pro
tected against the shout of itinerant hordes
that infest our large cities from one end of the
year to the other. Oar regular merchants there ,a no e™ nite at stone Mountain .. to -u there
... . . at , i is no coal and iron at Birmingham,
pay their part of the taxes the year round, Th , r hav . CO mpte«d .od h.ve in .aoo.l.1 oporw-
rent stores, keep up the city, contribute to its j tiou a
wealth, and make its name honored, and they splendid system of water works,
should be protected in the exercise of the re- on precisely the plan I advise Atlanta last winter,
ciprocal privileges it grants them. Let the
Council act boldly and decisively in this mat* |
ter.
THE CHOLERA.
selected a pure spring branch, three mile* from the
depot, procured an engine of 25 horse power, con
structed a dam across the branch, and with eight-inch
iron pipe conveyed the water one and a quarter miles
to a high hill, one hundred and seventy-five feet above
the level of the dam—and there the water is kept in a
brick reservoir—and from thence it is carried by its
own gravity, through eight-inch iron pipe, to the city
TERtRlSXiE REPORTS FROM j below. The supply is sufficient to fill every cistern
I we have in Atlanta.
NASHV iLiLiF. In fact, the supply of water that Birmingham
has now from works erected at a cost inside
of sixty thousand dollars, is amide for Atlanta for all
Over Ninety Deaths from the 1 practical purposes. We ha\e the streams and the ele
vation, and at a cost of seventy-five thousand dollars
Scourge on Yesterday . can fill a large reservoir in the center of the city, and
. all our cisterns now built, and such as it may be nec-
~ essary to build for fire purposes, and carried thence to
Its Appearance and Progress; tnc Ecwer '-' l ' ith thc “ Ei6,am ' eofraiuw * ter * Ild
in Cincinnati.
pure running branches, will keep all these clear.
Thus we may be secured against the danger of being j
burnt out some uight, and render our sanitary ar-
, r&ngements complete. Why not stop theorizing, and
special correspondent at Nash- go to work and do it?
THOUGHT> FOR ATLANTA.
Whether or
ville has fallen a victim to cholera, or taken his de
parture from that aftlicted city to a safer place, we
If the city will furnish me the amount mentioned,
have not been able to ascertain, but ;for two days past j w m p U t dovn the pipeB and furnish a
he has failed to forward us any reports of the condi
tion of affairs there.
THE DISEASE STILL SPREADING.
It is certain, however, that the scourge is still
spreading in Nashville, and if private telegrams re
ceived in this city on yesterday can be relied upon, it
it has assumed frightful proportions. One dispatch
reports that cholera carried off more than ninety per
sons on yesterday, the large majority j of whom were
negroes whose uncleanly habits and style of living
invited the disease and aided materially in its propa
gation.
AMONG THE UPPER CLASSES.
While, however, the negroes were the principal
victims, thj disease was gradually extending its
ravages among the better classes, and wag finding
victims among persons whose habits and style of living
were unexceptionable. As a consequence, the exodus
from Nashville continued, though ou a diminished
scale, as nearly everybody has left the city already
who can afford to temporarily absent themselves
from their homes.
IN THE RAILROAD TOWNS.
Private advices also represent the disease a a appear
ing in the several towns on the railroads in Tennessee
and Kentucky leading from Nashville, and it is not
improbable that before many days we will hear of its
appearance in Louisville. As will be seen by our
dispatches, it has already appeared in Cincinnati.
The Disease in Cincinnati.
Cincinnati, June 21,1873.
There were three deaths Thursday and three on
Friday. Reported to have been caused from cholera,
t The Ileultli of Atlanta.
Some of our country exchanges are giving publicity
to absurd rumors concerning the health of Atlanta,
and it is even asserted that the cholera has appeared
here. We desire to here state implicitly that not a
single case of cholera has been in Atlanta yet. Reports
were spread in three different instances that such
was the case, but they were all
ascertained to be false. Two of these cases were
cholera morbus, and one was cramp cholic, and iu all
three the recoveries were rapid. Atlanta has certainly
been less healthy among the past few weeks than she
usually is, but her unhealthiness was due solely to
local causes, which have either been wholly or partial
ly removed. Within a week we hope to be able to
chronicle the complete cleaning up of the city when
Atlanta will resume her distinction as the healthiest
city in the United States. Already there is a marked
decline in sickness, aDd the death rate is as small as
usual.
In conclusion we desire to state that whenever a j
single case of Asiatic cholera is reported in this city,
we shall promptly and frankly publish the fact. We j
do not believe in the policy of suppressing news of :
this kind. If Asiatic cholera, or any other infectious :
or contagious diseafe appears in our midst, we hold it 1
our duty as journalists to make public the fact, and \
.eh water
need. There is no use in burdening ourselves
to keep the hundred thousand inhabitants that are
coming here in the future comfortable: let us make
ourselves comfortable. “Sufficient unto the day is
the.’evil thereof.” If the city grows, then Increase the
water works to meet the necessities of the day. This
is fair and just, and it is common 6ense. Let us
learn something from Birmingham and have water
works.
BIRMINGHAM AS A RAILROAD CENTRE
lias the same relation to Alabama that Atlanta has to
Georgia, with this advantage: The valley land around
it is better than we have, and then she has all aiound
her inexhaustible supplies of the best quality of iron,
coal, lime, marble, etc. "lbere is now a railroad run.
nine through Birmingham from Montgomery to Nash
ville and Louisville. From Montgomery roads arc
running to Atlanta, Pensacola, Lufaula, Columbus.
Selma, Mobile, etc.
Then she has another road from Meridian. Alabama
and Chattanooga, where roads branch off to Selma,
Mobile. Vicksburg, New Orleans, etc.
This railroad runs by Birmingham to Chattanooga,
where roads branch eff north, east and west. These
roads are now in operation and run daily through the
place. She has, in prospect, a new road now being
built from Opelika to Corinth, Miss., by which Un
people of Savannah and Southwest Georgia will have
a direct line to St. Louis.
THE COAL AND IRON INTERESTS
of North Georgia and Alabama are now attracting the
earnest attention of capitalists in Europe and America,
and in ten years the magnitude of their developments
will astouieh even the most sanguine minds. Coal is
becoming a necessity and iron is not only a necesaity
but fast becoming a luxury that enters into every »
ter prise.
When
THE GEORGIA WESTERN
is completed, iron can be carried from the Ooosa
mines to Port Royal and thence
to Liverpool cheaper than it can be
procured from the over-worked mines of Eng
land ; and coal can be shipped from these fields by
way of Port Royal on the largest vessels that float on
the Atlantic.
It you will examine the geography of our country,
in view of the contracts and contemplated improve
ments hinted at,and give the subject a little thought,you
will aee that my failure to have a big sale in Birming
ham is a small affair compared to the future destiny
of Birmingham and Atlanta, when these great rail
road enterprises are perfected.
Get a map and look for yourselves.
Next is the Georgia Western, from Atlanta to Bir
mingham. The completion of this road will give
Charleston and Port Royal, uud Augusta, a direct line
through Atlanta to tue coal and iron of North Ala
bama, and another outlet to the great West.
There is a road in contemplation direct from Mobile
3 shall perlorm that duty without hesitation. But, , „ . .
. , . . . .. . ..... i to Birmingham, Wheu the link between Birmingham
a do beg our country cousins to wait until the disease ; . ... .
really do«-s appear before they give publicity to wild
rumors.
Associated Press Accounts from Nashville.
Nashville, June 21, 1873.
The mortuary list irom the cholera shows flfty-nine
and the Mississippi river, at a point a few miles south
of Napoleon, where a bed is already graded from the
west bank of the Mississippi towards Northeast Texas,
where it tans
THE OKKAY SOUTHERN !
making west to San Diego on the Pacific ocean. This
deaths, of which forty-eight were colored. The j ig now being built through Mississippi, east, to-
weather is rainy, with occasional sunshine. wards BirminghaaI . When this road is completed it
Deaths ill Memphis The Surrounding I will put Atlanta and Birmingham on the Air Line road
Country. j between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. These
Memphis, June 21, 1873. are
The weather to-day is hot and clear. ! visiosaby roads,
There were fourteen deaths from cholera. ; but are under charter and construction, audio five
Reports from the surrounding country state that the
disease still prevails, but in a less violent form.
A Cholera Death in Washington.
Washington, June 21, 1873.
The Doctors announce a cholera death to-day of a
cleanly colored woman iu a healthful locality, and
state that cucumbers was the cause.
Several cases of choleratic diarrhea have beeu re.
ported.
Action of the Massachusetts State Board of
Health.
Boston, Juno 21, 1873.
Massachusetts State Board of Health has addressed a
circular to the cities and towns of tbeStatc advising the
health authorities to take prompt measures to avert
danger from Asiatic cholera.
WASHINGTON DOTS.
A New Postmistress Gone Telegraph-
Hoar on the Lookout.
Washington, June 21,1873.
Mrs. White is appointed postmistress at Water Val
ley, vice Bnford, suspended.
Secretary Richardson has gone to Harvard.
Secretary Delano will be gone for seventy day*.
The Star says the automatic telegraph, with its fran
chises, is about to pats Into the hands of the Weatern
Union.
The War Department wants a quarter of a million
head stones for the Union dead.
Hoar, fnrmetly Attorney General, is prominently
mentioned for Chief Justice.
years will be completed, and when done will be of r
tual benefit to both Atlanta and Birmingham.
I have no fears of the future. We have the elements
ot wealth and power within our grasp, and men of e
ergy and capacity, who will make them available.
In great, haste, I have complied, this morning, with
your request—to give you my impression of Birming
ham.
THE TURF.
Races at Fleetwood and Jerome Park The
Winners and their Time.
New York, June 21, 1873.
Fleetwood races—Constance won the first; time 2:37
2:3C\, 2:34 won by lady Bunkers, 36 > 4 .
Young Bauuo won the second—time 2:28’*, 2 29V
2 81 2:31 ’ 4 . Quarge won the thin! heat.
JEROME I*ARK RACKS.
[The following dispatch says "add to Jerome Park,”
but the report of the first race has not reached \
Ei's. Hkrald. !
Second race: Haudicsp sweepstakes—one miles
a quarter; the horses started were Woodbine, liren-
nus. Stock wood. Buckdeu, The Nurse, and Little’i
colt. The race waa won by 8tockwood—time 2.12.
Third race: Selling race—one mile; the five horses
started were, Gerald, Quitx, Saudford, Winosap, and
Liverpool. The race was won by Sandford—time
1:46V
The fourth was a selling race of one mile and three
quarters, seven horses starting. Won by Vespuciun
time 8:11.
P 01S 0 N E D ? •
Testimony Before tile Polaris
Investigating Committee.
Captiiin Hall Declares He was
Poisoned.
Buddington Drunk Very Often.
Hall’s Death Takes a Stone from
His Heart.
Washington, Jane 21,187J.
Th*; following is s glance of the additional evidence
in the Polaris examination, which has just been
printed:
Gustavs W. Lindquist, a native of Stockholm, was a
seaman ou board that v#-*wel; was the last one that
lelt it, and never had any other belief than that Capt.
Hall
died a natural death,
although he knew there were men around who did
not like Hall. There was good discipline while the
Csptain lived, but they put discipline along with him
in his grave. There waa uo mutiny or difficulty ot
that kind.
At the time the ship and the floe parted she
did not leak more than she had for a considerable
period before. He saw the ship next day, and
thought those on board could not have failed to see
all on the floe, because they had the masthead to see
from, but he did not know the condition of the vessel
was such that they could hare done so. They might,
he said, have thought it easier for us to get to them.
I do not think the ship will bo able to get out without
help, because she has little coal, and under canvaeg
cannot pass through the ice. I think the parting be
tween us and the ships purely accidental. Peter
Johnson, a seaman, and a native of Denmark, testified
that he had uo reason to believe that Capt. Hall died
from any other than a natural cause. He never heard
anybody ssy that
KE HAD BEEN POISONED.
He used to say that somebody was going to -boot him
but this was when he was not in his right senses. He
did not know anything about any difficulty aboard the
ship,, but beard that the officers aft did not agree
very well. He had seen Capt. Buddington when be
had a little too much, but cou’.d but see it on the oth
ers the night
Captain Buddington was all right. There
was then no liquor on the ship. Wm. Jsckson, tbe
cook, a native of New York, said Hall accused the peo
ple of poisoning him; didn't call by name, but would
p^int toward Dr. Bessels and ssy,
“THAT MAN POISONED Me.”
Alter be became very bad he thought everybody was
trying to poison him. It was said he was out of his
I head. Hall thought the witness was goiDg to shoot
him. He had no idea Hall died any but
a natural death; he had no reason for believing to the
I contrary ; be could not say that any officer of the ship
i got drunk; he never saw any one who might be called
! drunk. James Herron, the Stewart, a native of Liver-
j pool, but au American citizen, testified that, when
I Captain Hall came back from his sledge journey on the
i 24th of October, he, in response to Hall's request, gave
j him a cup of coffee made by tbe cook, but he had no
i idea that he died from other than a natural cause.
BUDDINGTON BECAME DRUNK
: ofteier aftef Hall's death than before; the other offi
cers used drink, but he didu't see them drunk; he
was pretty sure Buddington was not drunk when tt e
ship and ttoe parted; Buddington's command was
| submitted to by every person on board: bethought
' the Polaris would come out all right,
j Wm. Winderiuan, being sworn, said: He was a sea-
i man: born in Germany; had no reason to believe that
Hall did not die a natural death; thought the separation
j of the ship and floe accidental: he thought the
' ship could have come to to them if she had been iu
good condition. Fred. Aunting. a seaman from the
I Russia, testified that he didn't know what was the mat
ter with Hall. He had never heard of any difficulty
except some little difference between Capt. Hall and
Mr. M*-yer at Disco, and bad never seen any of the
officers drunk, nor did he hear of anything of th 0
kind. Juo. W. C. Kruger testified at Disco
THERE WAS SOME <;RUMBLUS(,
! iu regard to the grab. Rumors were afloat in the ship
; that Dr. Bessels, Mr. Meyer, Mr. Chester, the engin
eer and Captain Buddington were about to leave the
ship. There was some talk among the crew, but it
amounted to nothiug. It was not known at the time
if it had attracted the attention of Captain Hall. Wit
ness did not hear anything about it from Cart, Bud
dington himself, and it amounted to nothing after
they left Disco.
A STONE OFF BUDDINGTON'* HEART.
j Frederick Jamta, seaman, born in Prussia, testified
that after the death of Hall one of the men went aft iu
the morning and met Csptain Buddiugtcn. Tbe Cap
tain said:
“Well, Henry, there is a stone off my heart.'
Henry said, “Why so ? Why, Captain ?”
• Hall is dead.”
We did not, the witness said, like that very weiL As
far as my opinion goes, I think Captain Hall died a
natural death. Captain Buddington made fan of Cap
tain Hall a good many times among the men. Captain
Buddington was very friendly to Captain Hall till hie
back was turned. Captain Buddington was drunk very
often. We did not think the vessel would be able to
come out without assistance, as she had only thirteen
o: fourteen tons of coal on board—just enough to last
her for the winter.
Personal Intelligence.
Alton Angier has left for New York, whence be will
sail in the steamer Java fer Europe. We wish him
safe and happy over the ** briny deep.”
It will gravity many Atlantiana to know that Mr.
Dick Peters, kuowu as an accomplished young cnil
engineer, lately engaged on the Western Railroad, is
chosen as Chief Engineer of a fine and solid road of
East Kentucky. We feel assured that he will fill the
place with honor.
Major General Fielderat, of the Virginia Army, and
as gallant an officer as ever went to battle at the head
of his hosts, has been spending some days in the city.
He doubtless meets many old comrades here.
Mr. Busaey of Columbus, son of Colonel Barney of
the Eagle and Phu-nix Mills, will, on next Tuesday
night, engage in marriage Miss Lizzie Lucas of Athens.
The groom and his friends will pas* through Atlanta
to-night.
l>r. Watkins Hicks created great enthusiasm u Au
gusta with his lecture on •• Home. Sweet Home.” He
ought to l>e asked to deliver it here.
C. W. Felts, of W. W. Felts k Bro., Tuskegee, Ala
bama is at the National Hotel sick. He came to the.
city for the purpose of buying goods. \\ e hope to sew
him out again very aoon.
The following prominent persons among ethers
were registered at the National lastmght:
■ M. G. Robert, Misses Bessie and Bailie Cooper
Washington: J II Nichollsaud daughter, Naooochee;.
F A Frost, banker, LaGrange; Visaes M.Elheney.
Abercrombie and Wimberly, Macon. P F Chambers.
Columbus; F U Cold well, Chattanooga; Captain W B
Thomas, Opelika; J B HolHnshead. Fort Valley ; J M
Austin. East Point; Geo C Cornwall. Augusta; WL
Bass. Macon; H G Dewis, Greensboro; Rev W A Parks
Marietta. CM Dickey. Xenia, Ohio; J s Hunter and
W H Terrie, Pendleton, 8 C; W J Harris, Alabama;
Hon H R Harris and wife, Greenville; W S Wamn,
j l 8 Honey and T 8 Garner, city.
Prize Declamation.—There will be a prize deola-
matiou by the yonng men of the Atlanta Select 8chood
at the hall of the Kimball House on Monday evenii^
next, June 23d, at eight o'clock, at which time the
prize will be delivered by Geu. A. C. Garlington. It
is needless to remark that the presentations speech of
the General will be fine, for no other kind emanates
from hla eloquent lips. The entrance to the hall is
on Wall street, and the oeeasion will doubtless prove,
one of intareet.